Greenlit Quotes

#1. Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Peter Jackson

#2. Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

Catherine Hardwicke

#3. Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.

Aml Ameen

#4. Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Catherine Hardwicke

#5. Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.

Ben Shapiro

#6. For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Kristen Wiig

#7. One of the worst things in the world today, the unkindness of woman to woman. You

Agatha Christie

#8. Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am living in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#9. No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

Wes Anderson

#11. I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Audre Lorde

#13. Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Katrina Kenison

#14. Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

Carol Grace

#15. I am practicing being kind over being right.

Matthew Quick

#16. I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Daniel Day-Lewis